Just as postsecondary schooling serves as a dividing line between the advantaged and disadvantaged on outcomes like income and marital status, it also serves as a dividing line between the healthy and unhealthy. Why are the better educated healthier? Human capital theory posits that education makes one healthier via cognitive (skill improvements) and noncognitive psychological resources (traits...

Background: Job burnout in an organization is mainly negatively related to important institutional and individual consequences. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of psychological capital on the relationship between spiritual intelligence and job burnout among the employees. Materials and Methods: This study was descriptive and correlational. Community consisted of all...

Background: It is important to recognize and use the strengths of children with oppositional defiant disorder. The study was about whether strength-based intervention is effective on subjective well-being and psychological capital in children with oppositional defiant disorder.  Method: The research was a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical popu...

Cultivating higher vocational students' employability is one of the most important goals for education. Many researchers address teachers' key roles in cultivation employability. However, relates to family environment and psychological capital. Through collection demographic data, 6700 students were investigated with Positive Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PPQ) College Students' Employabi...

BACKGROUND Social capital may theoretically explain health inequalities between social groups, but empirical evidence is lacking. Some studies indicate that social capital may be particularly important for immigrant health. Nearly 16% of Sweden's population are foreign-born immigrants and research has shown them to be susceptible to psychological distress, though significant variation has been ...

Learning motivation and transfer of human capital development: Implications from psychological capital" (2009). Management Department Faculty Publications. Paper 54.

to study the effect of positive psychology intervention on psychological well-being of drugs inmates.the subjects were 30 male drugs inmates in semnan prison. the participants were selected through random sampling and randomly placed in experimental (15 person) and control groups (15 person). one person in control group was absent in post-test. experimental and control group answered to psychol...